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Round 19 – Shorts

Twenty five weeks into a tough season that will go to the wire for teams fighting for a top 8 finish and our field umpires are dropping like flies.  Heath Ryan has finally succumbed to a season ending Achilles ...

Stuart knows “Wenn” to retire

Evergreen field umpire, Stuart Wenn announced his retirement from the AFL umpiring panel effective from the end of the 2014 season at a meeting of his umpiring colleagues on Monday night. Stuart has had a wr...

Brett Rosebury reaches 300

Brett Rosebury will become the first West Australian born umpire to reach 300 AFL games this coming weekend in the North Melbourne v. Geelong match on Saturday.  Brett becomes the 18th field umpire in VFL/AFL h...

Round 18 – Shorts

Jason Venkataya represented umpiring with distinction at the AFL opening of the Multi-cultural round.  Jason was part of a panel interviewed by Jason Mifsud, AFL head of diversity.  He outlined his families jou...

Rob makes 50 with a lot more to come

Ask Rob Taylor what his best or most enjoyable game was and he fires right back without any ego "I haven't had it yet!"  Rob goes on to say, "there were plenty of times in my short career when I didn't think I'...

Round 17 – shorts

It was a case of "old home week" for a number of the AFL umpires last weekend when our Tassie boys went back to Blundstone Arena and a welcome home.  Scott Jeffery hadn't been back since 1998 when he travelled ...

Courtney ready to go

Goal umpire, Courtney Lai has been quietly working in the background rehabilitating his knee that had to be reconstructed following that awful collision with Liam Picken in round two 2013.  Courtney began um...